Phrase Searching
Pay attention to phrases in search strings. If you are looking for
information on the capital gains tax, you need to enter that part
of your search string as a phrase. Otherwise, you may retrieve
irrelevant documents which contain all of the keywords, in any order,
anywhere in the document. Most search engines and databases support
phrase searches. Internet search engines usually require quotation marks
to indicate phrases, such as: "capital gains tax", "physician
assisted suicide", "human genome project".
